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Description:: From colonial practices designed to civilize indigenous communities, to counter-terrorism initiatives aimed at de-radicalizing dissidents in the wake of the War on Terror, to controversies over blasphemy and religious harm cases in international law, religious passions have been cast as a specter of unreason, treason, and radicalization. These assumptions sustain...
Keyword:: Emotion, Religion, International Law, Affect, Human Rights, and Political Theory
Subject:: Religion, International relations, and Political science
Creator:: Giliberti, Gina Camille
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16359 and etdadmin_upload_946425

Description:: This dissertation aims to rethink how contemporary feminism might grapple with complicity, cooptation, and the concomitant failure of feminist successes through a frame other than paradox. Arguing that the paradox frame locks us into a set of “dead ends,” I shift to an orientation toward spaces between. Through sustained engagement...
Keyword:: Feminist Theory, Political Theory, and Feminism
Subject:: Women's studies, Gender studies, and Political science
Creator:: Bowers, Malia
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_928676 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16250

Description:: “(Being a) Feminist (is a) Struggle: Intersectional Feminist Politics in the Era of the Women’s March” argues that contemporary feminist politics are characterized by debates and contestations concerning the political demands of intersectionality. Contemporary feminist theory and politics are particularly and peculiarly preoccupied with making these judgements about the political...
Keyword:: Intersectionality, Feminist Theory, Feminism, and Political Theory
Subject:: Political science
Creator:: Auriemma, Rhiannon L
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16068 and etdadmin_upload_902338

Description:: Responsibility is a central political concept, yet the dynamics of contemporary political life call into question commonsense accounts of individual moral responsibility; it is difficult to ascribe responsibility to individual agents when faced with political dilemmas like global climate change. In response to this dilemma, this project engages two questions....
Keyword:: Climate Change, Political Responsibility, Friedrich Nietzsche, Liberalism, Moral Responsibility, and Political Theory
Subject:: Political Science
Creator:: Michael Christopher Sardo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/16/2018
Date Modified:: 10/16/2018
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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